United States Ninth Circuit
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital v. Washington State Dept. of Health, 12-35652
Summary judgment for defendant that its Certificate of Need regulations, which provided that hospitals without on-site cardiac surgical facilities could perform elective percutaneous coronary interventions only if they obtained a Certificate of Need demonstrating sufficient need in the region to support an annual minimum volume, did not violate the dormant Commerce Clause, is affirmed, where plaintiff did not establish that: 1) the challenged regulations burdened interstate commerce; or 2) the putative safety benefits were illusory.
Appellate Information
- Decided 09/23/2013
- Published 09/23/2013
Judges
- McKEOWN
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit